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Just kickin' it
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Kyle McKenzie, Jackson, Mo., senior, participates in an afternoon game of hacky sack Tuesday in front of Wescoe Hall. McKenzie and his friends meet every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon, and often for additional daily sessions at friend's houses around Lawrence.
ENTERTAINMENT
Everclear to perform in Lawrence Tickets on sale for Sept.28 alternative rock show
BY BEN SMITH
Of the 8,000 miles Art Alexakis, lead singer of the alternative rock band Everclear, will be traveling this month. Lawrence is one of the stops he is looking forward to the most.
"It's one of my favorite places in the world," Alexakis, said. "Lawrence embraced Everclear before anyone else. Plus it's just a hop, skip and jump from good barbecue."
Everclear will be performing at the Granada Theatre, 1020 Massachusetts St., Sept. 28, as part of the tour promoting its album "Welcome to the Drama Club," released Sept. 12.
Alexakis, 44, said he was excited to be visiting Lawrence again
Alexakis said that as he's grown older his interests on tour have become less about the girls and more about the food. He said that he enjoyed touring college towns even though at times he would rather be home spending time with his family.
because it was one of the earliest places to give Everclear support when it first started almost 15 years ago.
The band will be tour 28 cities promoting its first album since "So Much for the Afterglow" in May 2003.
"I want bands who open up for us to kick our asses," Alexakis said. "The winner there is the person who bought a ticket."
Jonny Dubowsky or "jonny-D", the namesake and leader of the band Jonny Lives! said he was excited to-be on his first major tour of the United States. He said his band, which is releasing its first album "Get Steady," was espe-
and a half on stage in front of an audience that made the hard work worth while.
Appearing along side Everclear are two other bands, Jonny Livesal and Big City Rock, which hail from the same area in the East Village of New York City.
Alexakis said it was the hour
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TRANSPORTATION
City, University explore merger
Funding and management key factors in joint bus system
BY MARK VIERTHALER
KU on Wheels and the Lawrence Transit System may be able to merge the two systems if the issues of governance and funding can be resolved.
Discussions continued Tuesday regarding the possible coordination of the two bus lines.
After meeting on Monday to give a general layout of potential problems and advantages of integrating the two systems, project designers, city officials and school delegates brought their presentation to the University.
Dan Boyle, lead consultant on the project, said the biggest hurdle they are going to have to fight is a natural distrust between the University and the city.
The city and the University are sometimes at odds with each others ideas, Boyle said. "Both sides seem to ask 'Are they just looking for our money? What are we going to get in return?'"
The study has determined that merging the two systems is plausible, but student representatives have raised concerns with where governance of an integrated system would fall.
Benjamin Driks, Prairie Village sophomore, said one of his largest concerns is where the money is going to come from to fund the merger.
"Any type of reform right now would be prohibited by the current funds," he said. "Nothing can get achieved unless there's some huge change on either side."
Driks, a representative from Delta Force, said he would return his notes to his superiors and they would then pursue the funding issue further.
Dan Boyle and Associates, Inc. did a study of other Big 12 schools that had integrated their own university's bus system with city transit.
Regarding governance, the study revealed the University of Texas gave the final say in transit options to students. Iowa State had an equal number of representatives from the city, students and the university on a board.
For funding, the University of Colorado has used student fees to fund unlimited access programs to both campus and city service.
Boyle said these are all viable options to consider.
Danny Kaiser, assistant director of parking and transit for the University, said one of the biggest issues would be pleasing both sides of the potential integration.
"it's going to take a lot of work to find the comfort level of all the stake holders," Kaiser said. "We're going to have to find something that everyone can live with."
He said the issues of governance and funding are going to be the two hot-button issues as the various options are considered.
merger options
These five alternatives have been presented as possible solutions on how to merge the two systems:
Separate service, separate funding, limited service coordination
Separate systems, separate funding, coordinated service.
One system, separate funding sources, contracted services
One system, separate funding sources, one representative policy board
Boyle said the final report is expected to be finished in November.
Transit Authority, one funding recipient where they have full control over all aspects
Kansan staff writer Mark Vierthaler can be contacted at mvierthaler@kansan.com.
》 ENVIRONMENT
Edited by Jacky Carter
BY NATE MCGINNIS
Student Senate passed a resolution last Wednesday pledging $30,000 to develop-a grey water irrigation system at the University of Kansas.
Grey water to save money System will recycle rainwater from rooftops for irrigation
Peg Livingood, project coordinator for DCM, said grey water irrigation is the process of using runoff from impermeable surfaces
A grey water system would collect the runoff water in a holding receptacle such as a pond or underground tank and then fill a tanker truck to
like rooftops and concrete to irrigate green spaces on campus.
"We're taking a look at any funding sources that might be available from the state or government," Livinggood said.
will be needed to complete the entire project.
The money was pledged to University Design and Construction Management and requires the principal amount of the loan to be paid back within 10 years.
This was something that wasn't being worked on that I thought we actually had a chance of making a difference in.
STUDIE RED CORN Shawnee junior
Livinggood said the project is in the preliminary planning stages and details would still need to be discussed.
"We're dealing with the issue of exactly what the scope should be," Livinggood said.
bring the water to locations around campus.
The $30,000 will only cover the initial costs needed to develop a plan for a grey water system. More money
The resolution does not require DCM to pay interest on the loan.
According to the resolution, the University used approximately 4 million gallons a year of potable water for irrigation purposes. A tanker
Cindy Strecker, energy program manager, said the University pays $2.13 per thousand gallons of water used. At that rate, the University spends $85,200 on irrigation annually.
truck fills up with potable water at a filling station on West Campus.
The resolution states approximately six times this amount of water falls on the University annually.
Studie Red Corn, Shawnee junior and author of the resolution, said
Red Corn became interested in the idea when he researched consumption and waste at the University for a speech in his communications class.
Alarmed by the amount of consumption by the University, Red Corn worked the idea into his party platform when he ran as the Delta Force candidate for student body president last spring.
"This was something that wasn't being worked on that I thought we actually had a chance of making a difference in," Red Corn said. Red Corn lost the election, but said he wanted to set a precedent on campus to take environmental issues further.
"By implementing more sustainable development methods on campus we are, one, saving money and, two, thinking long term," Red Corn said.
Kansan staff writer Nate McGinnis can be contacted at nmcginnis@ kansan.com.
with a grey water system in place the University should save money on both irrigation costs and storm water fees. He was unsure of the exact amount of water that would be conserved because the project had not been finalized.
Edited by Brett Bolton
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Scholarship hall residents must wait until spring for the opening of their new community center. Additional renovations prevented the facility from being completed this fall.